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Mathias Vermeulen

@mathver.bsky.social
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EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join us today at 2.30 PM CET online for a conversation addressing the emerging regulatory framework of social media bans and age verification.
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Dire news.gallup.com/poll/695003/...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
While we're still waiting for the EU-US "high level joint statement" let's just be clear about what until now has been "agreed". (From: mailings.cer.eu/insights/def...)
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
(3) expands the criteria used to determine access modalities and introduces more granular, risk-based safeguards
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
One of the many seminars @marietjeschaake.bsky.social organized.. 8 years ago! Plus ca change..
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The proposal is part of the 4th "Simplification Omnibus Package" and the EC claims it "should help companies save EUR 66 million per year". The EC further maintains that this amendment "respects the GDPR risk-based approach". Here's the amendment commission.europa.eu/document/7fd...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
European Commission introduces a new category of "small mid-cap" companies, applying to roughly 38000 companies in the EU with fewer than 750 employees and a turnover of up to €150 million or total assets of up to €129 million that will exempted from the GDPR ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Interesting report from the University of Lund and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is an important one: European Commission seeks feedback on the guidelines on protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mg...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Pretty good summary by @axios.com on how businesses can appease Trump
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trump administration in the FT: we're facing unfair competition from sweatshops www.ft.com/content/f313... Also Trump administration: ... so we want our own sweatshops bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Don't expect a multi-billion dollar DMA fine against Apple or Meta this week. The rationale for the DMA is compliance, not punishment, Guersent said. pro.politico.eu/news/196876
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Division in the EU on whether to use the ACI against US tariffs. www.ft.com/content/ca3c... One camp:
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Massive study done for the European Commission exploring "the context, challenges, opportunities, and trends in algorithmic management in the workplace": employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/study-explor...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
UK Online safety regulator OFCOM to Gab: time to hand in your illegal content risk assessment documents by the 17th of April. Gab: CENSORSHIP 🤪 - we'll complain to USTR, see what happens. x.com/BasedTorba/s...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Europe Needs Regional Chain of Command for Defense, Draghi Says www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Very timely paper given all ongoing AI policy developments in the US arxiv.org/abs/2502.09618
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
PS Some schooling needed to be done as well 🙃
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The letter starts with this observation
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great point from @markscott.bsky.social newsletter www.digitalpolitics.co/newsletter03...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Current vibe in Brussels www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Kids made a snowman and the prompt was “channel dad’s thoughts about the US’s current foreign policy” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
JD Vance in Munich, according to the NYT
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
VDL's 50 billion consists of a European fund of €10 billion for AI "gigafactories" for which 1.96 billion was already allocated according to Euractiv - so it seems an additional 8 billion has been earmarked, which will be supplemented with 7 billion of public money www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Here's the relevant part of the EU AI Champions initiative files.elfsightcdn.com/eafe4a4d-343...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The EC is pledging to "top up" a 150 billion investment pledge by 20 key private investors with 50 billion euro. Von Der Leyen's speech: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Imagine the US would impose tariffs on the EU for non-trade related reasons (DSA-investigations, NATO finance.. ), how could the EU respond through its never-used-before anti-coercion tool (created during the first Trump Presidency in 2023?) 🤔 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Regulate fast, figure out the details later – the EU’s approach to AI" by @ggf.bsky.social for LSE adding more criticism to some of the implementing details (on AI literacy or the definition of AI systems) that have emerged in the last months blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
JD Vance is coming to Paris and Munich this week and he's planning to talk about "Western values such as freedom of speech", he said in an interview with Breitbart www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If you want to compare it with the draft of 9 january, have a look here
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Euractiv has mapped all DeepSeek-related open investigations and requests for information from European data protection authorities www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Meta's Joel Kaplan will be in Brussels next week
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
DeepSeek collects "keystroke rhythms" information 🤔 chat.deepseek.com/downloads/De...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Memecoins like TRUMP and MELANIA are essentially forms of payment technology. Great explainer why Trumps memecoins are his slush fund www.noahpinion.blog/p/your-memec...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Peak news avoidance today
Mountains in snow
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Elon Musks megaphone is not the Digital Services Act (DSA) "live or die" moment in the EU. Started to gather some thoughts here after some of the discussions of last week, including here with @daphnek.bsky.social @davidakaye.bsky.social @pjleerssen.bsky.social . Should I flesh it out a bit further?
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Some data points I would be looking for if I wanted to monitor whether X was boosting the Musk-AfD debate tonight, in @politico.eu with @pieterhaeck.bsky.social pro.politico.eu/news/191916. See also this study by @timothyjgraham.bsky.social eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/1/A_c...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It all comes from this letter - there’s no major development.
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Former Managing Public Policy Director and Head of EU Affairs at Meta’s Brussels office, now a Member of the European Parliament (on the other place at x.com/AuraSalla/st...)
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I think that this Le Monde single source claim that the EU "will pause ongoing DSA investigations" should just be read together with this. French source with an axe to grind - and there are a couple of those out there these days.
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Macron on Musk:
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Study from 2016 on happiness at work. “Paid work is ranked lower than any of the other 39 activities individuals can report engaging in, with the exception of being sick in bed”. Social media would probably rank even lower 8y later.. academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users on.ft.com/41SdCnM
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here we go! #dsa
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